Faculty Development Groups

Have you ever graded an assignment and wondered, “Why didn’t my students get this concept/idea?” Maybe you tried something new and it worked great, or was not so great, and you wondered, “What happened? And how can I improve on this result?” The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Faculty Interest Group (FIG) might be for you. This working group of faculty colleagues meets during over the semester and helps you take your questions about teaching and learning and turn them into research projects and potential publications. Using the brief, informative, and free to download book The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as a guide, each session works towards outlining a plan for undertaking your own SoTL research project including: identifying where you want to improve or learn more, finding your focus, considering student and ethical perspectives, and sharing your findings, whatever form that might take. So whether you want to reflect on and learn more about what’s going on in your classroom and/or work on creating research that is relevant to the work you do at KCC, I hope that this FIG will be a supportive and collaborative environment for you to do just that.

Meeting Dates and Locations

Fri, March 27 – 10-11am – online ZOOM

Fri, April 17 – 10-11 am – online ZOOM

Fri, May 1 – 10-11 am – online ZOOM

Fri, May 15 – 10-11 am – online ZOOM

Fri, May 29 – 10-11 am – online ZOOM & on campus in M391

Fri, June 5 – 10-11 am – online ZOOM & on campus in M391

SOTL OER Reading:

The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

by Nancy L. Chick, Peter Felten, and Katarina Mårtensson

ZOOM Link –

Topic:  SoTL Faculty Group

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87344400628?pwd=kZDrIisqqETae7mBBLdcaJUV5Tyvll.1

Meeting ID: 873 4440 0628

Passcode: 058832

 

About the facilitator Gordon Alley-Young 

Gordon Alley-Young started working at KCC in 2004 and he is a Professor of Speech Communication. His research focuses on critical cultural analyses of media and popular culture on subjects including education, identity, cultural politics, and terrorism. He is a past president of The CUNY League of Active Speech Professors, a past book/media review co-editor for American Communication Journal, a past fellow of the American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD), and a former co-coordinator of the campus WRAC program. Before joining academia, Gordon worked as a journalist and a media and community relations liaison in his native country of Canada.

For more information or to join our group please contact Gordon (Gordon.Young@kbcc.cuny.edu)